Lead Site Reliability Engineer- Athena Core

Aumni; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Mumbai seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to shape reliability strategy across critical services. You will lead resiliency reviews, break complex problems into work for engineers, and mentor teams while aligning SRE practices with business goals.

You will drive data-driven improvements, define SLIs/SLAs, and guide AI-assisted reliability workflows across the SDLC, ensuring security and auditable processes while coordinating with product and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts.
• 10+ years of applied experience in site reliability or related field.
• Fluent in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Leads resiliency design reviews and mentors engineers.
• Champions site reliability culture and shares knowledge internally.
• Establishes service level indicators and objectives with stakeholders.
• Uses AI capabilities to accelerate incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis.
• Acts as technical lead for medium to large products and guides CI/CD and deployment practices.

Skills

Python

Java/Spring Boot

.Net

Reliability engineering

Observability

CI/CD

AI-assisted SRE

Leadership

Education

Software engineering certification

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Assume a critical role in defining the future of a globally recognized firm and have a direct and significant effect in a realm tailored for top achievers in site reliability.

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, you hold a leadership role in your team, demonstrate strong knowledge across multiple technical domains, and advise others on the technical and business issues facing them. Take lead and conduct resiliency design reviews, break up complex problems into digestible work for other engineers, act as a technical lead for medium to large-sized products, and provide advice and mentoring to other engineers.

Job responsibilities

• Consistently models and champions site reliability culture and practices, documents and shares knowledge within your organization via internal forums and communities of practice
• Leads initiatives to improve the reliability and stability of your team’s applications and platforms using data-driven analytics to improve service levels, proactively identifying and solving technology-related bottlenecks in areas of expertise
• Drives collaboration with your team to identify comprehensive service level indicators and the stakeholder partners to establish reasonable service level objectives and error budgets with your customers
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate major-incident triage, troubleshooting, and post-incident analysis, validating outputs and handling operational data according to sensitivity and security requirements.
• Serves as the main point of contact during major incidents for your application and has the skills to identify and solve the issue quickly to avoid financial loss to the business
• Offers a high level of technical expertise within one or more technical domains and provides advice and mentorship to other engineers
• Leads reuse-first adoption of AI-assisted reliability workflows across SDLC/toolchain practices (e.g., CI/CD quality checks, test/validation automation, and operational readiness), ensuring traceability/auditability, resiliency, and security controls.
• Be part of the first line of support for the wider Athena Core team.

Lead and conduct resiliency design reviews, break up complex problems, and act as a technical lead for medium to large sized products

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, toil reduction, and other site reliability best practices
• Fluent in at least one programming language such as: Python, Java/Spring Boot, .Net
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to improve SRE workflows (e.g., incident investigation support and knowledge capture) with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to evaluate AI-assisted operational recommendations for correctness and risk, define appropriate guardrails for team usage, and ensure outcomes align to resiliency and security expectations.
• Proficient knowledge and experience in observability such as white and black box monitoring, service level objective alerting, and telemetry collection
• Proficient with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices and tooling
• Proficient with container and container orchestration
• Experience with troubleshooting common networking technologies and issues
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with emerging depth in one or more technical disciplines, and actively self-educates to evaluate and recommend suitable new technologies